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5 Key Advantages of Microsoft Identity Manager

One of the great innovations of the 2016 version is better integration with Microsoft Azure cloud services platform from Microsoft, with it you will have more speed in management roles and access permissions to employees. The Microsoft Identity Manager is a mainstay of Microsoft's enterprise mobility suite that facilitates the management staff of a company. Microsoft Identity Manager has a version of 180-day tests. Here are five advantages of using it.
Microsoft Identity Manager

An Identity For Various Products

With Identity Manager, each employee can have a single identity for all company applications. The network administrator can specify through a panel which applications the employee will have access or not.

The 2016 version is already prepared to use Active Directory Microsoft Azure, which allows the account to be used only in the company, with devices that have access to Azure product or a hybrid solution.

Self-Service Functions

Microsoft Identity Manager user does not need to be dependent on the company's IT industry to do basic functions like create working groups or to join them.
The platform also allows it to get a new password or unlock account for himself. For this it offers different authentication formats, such as Multi-Factor Authentication Azure (MFA), phone call, SMS or temporary passwords.

Improvements To The Privileged Access Management (PAM)

One of the tools that allows the operation of self-service functions is the PAM, or Privileged Access Management. The system that controls access identities administrators or employees with privileged access. The service now has with simplified panels that will expedite applications for access, extension of time periods or managing employees.
Inside it is possible to define automation or not requests for privileges, monitoring threats, the lifecycle of authentication services as well as multiple authentication factors.

Ready For The Cloud

Many of the new features of Microsoft Identity Manager are already interconnected with systems like Active Directory Microsoft Azure. In addition to the hybrid identity for employees, the platform now offers a hybrid reporting tool - for services "on-premises" and Azure services - as well as better synchronization support the connection between the site and the Azure Active Directory.

Fully Backward Compatible


If by chance you already use Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 in your company, Microsoft identity Manager 2016 has all the functions of its predecessor and is backward compatible. Ie the process of upgrading to the new version will present virtually.

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